I worked on this on and off all day, 4-5 hours at least. I got ADE downloaded on to my PC about a week ago, but only with Adobe support, who helped me create an Adobe ID and password. Yesterday and today, I decided to set up my new laptop, which is where I want to really use Ebooks for travel plans. But no matter what I do, I always get an error message that there was a download error. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling (ADE was not fully installed, that's my guess). I tried using different browsers, Firefox, IE and Google Chrome. I checked
Adobe Support messages and downloaded Adobe Flash. Abode Support called me but said because its a free product, they wanted $39 to give me telephone help. Adobe Support online pointed me to this forum. The Hawaii State Librarian showed me where to authorize the computer, but it's already authorized. I have no other ideas ... I'm just trying to read ebooks from our State system that I've already paid for as a taxpayer.

After this experience and after reading some of these blogs, I can't recommend anything Adobe and I would never fork over money for an ebook. The librarian said bring your laptop to the library, but they have no WiFI, so she said she'd ask her supervisor if she walk to our State
Capitol where they do have WiFI to see if she can help! Thank you! But I'm wondering what she's going to try that I haven't already?

Not sure why the download doesn't finish ... it's a brand new HP Pavilion with Windows 7. Anyone have any suggestions? Or should I just lug around hard copies of books when I travel?

Just out of curiosity, I tried downloading Kindle and that worked in about 60 seconds. Also, there's lots of ebooks out there that don't use ADE, like the Gutenberg Project (sp?), that seem like another solution, but I won't be getting the books that my taxes already paid for ...

Thanks for any suggestions, folks!